A discipline that analyses the usability of an application by assessing its interaction design and user experience.
A UX design technique in which you divide your users into groups, show them cards with different names for unrelated objects and ask them to categorise them.
Black, white, and all the values of shades in between.
The measure of how easily light passes through a material. It is a quantitative characteristic that can be represented as a number within the range of [0, 1], and in some cases [0%,100%], with lower numbers indicating higher transparency.
A usability assessment method that is used to evaluate a design against established usability principles or heuristics. It is based on the idea that designers can use their experience to find areas of poor design without extensive user testing.
In handwriting and calligraphy, ball terminals are the end of a stroke that resembles a ball. They are also used in some typefaces like cursive or old-style typefaces.
A unit for defining the size of a font. It's not a distance; this unit's measurement is only relative to the typeface's design.
A letter, symbol, or another alphabet unit.
A psychological phenomenon that states that people tend to remember unfinished or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks.
The process of arranging type to make written material readable. The arrangement of type involves decisions about individual letters and words (e.g. line spacing, letter spacing, and word spacing) and more significant page layout decisions (e.g., margins, headline position on the page).
A type of design that features the strokes running predominantly from the upper left to the lower right.
It can also be used in reference to a type of lettering, typically for advertisements, to be read in either direction. It is also used to help the reader navigate through and around the advertisement.